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Utilization of mango wastes as a potential feedstock for the production of HMF

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Agro-industrial wastes could become a source of revenue through their valorization while reducing their management and disposal issues. In this work, residues from the mango industry have been investigated as a source of sugars for the synthesis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a high value platform chemical. Mangoes, which were past the last stage of ripening, were used as feedstock for microwave-assisted synthesis of HMF under hydrothermal conditions. The product was quantified through HPLC-DAD. The experimental conditions permitted a maximal HMF yield of 21.2 mol% in a 20-min reaction time at 150 °C with a 1:19 dilution ratio. The advantages of the synthesis pathway include the use of microwave heating and water as solvent media, which renders the reaction pathway eco-friendly. High temperatures and prolonged reaction times seem to lead to unidentified side products which lead to a reduction in HMF yield. The results presented in this work highlight mango fruit waste as a potential biomass for HMF production. This would give value to a current agro-industrial waste while attending to current problems linked to its disposal.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Colima, Carretera Colima-Coquimatlán km. 9, 28400, Coquimatlán, Colima, Mexico

    Roberto Muñiz-Valencia, Gabriela C. Cortés-Quintero, Arely Y. Nava-García & Kayim Pineda-Urbina

  2. Bioresource Engineering Department, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Rd., Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, Canada

    Guillermo Portillo-Pérez & Marie-Josée Dumont

  3. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Colima, Bernal Díaz del Castillo 340, 28045, Colima, Colima, Mexico

    Silvia G. Ceballos-Magaña

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Muñiz-Valencia, R., Portillo-Pérez, G., Ceballos-Magaña, S.G. et al. Utilization of mango wastes as a potential feedstock for the production of HMF. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 12, 5145–5152 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-01070-9

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